mae tao clinic for 30 years since 1989

Our services

CHILD PROTECTION & EDUCATION

While Mae Tao Clinic began as a humble health service delivery organisation, it has evolved into an umbrella social services network for refugees, migrant workers, and other displaced Burmese. As a focal point of these activities, child protection is the most rapidly growing area of need.

health services

Training

Mae Tao Clinic is viewed as an excellent training facility as it offers skilled trainers, including Burmese doctors, senior medics, and international professionals. Due to the Clinic’s high patient load, it also offers extensive practical training.

health systems strengthening

The Health Systems Strengthening Project is a network of ethnic and
community health organisations who are working together to strengthen health systems in Eastern Burma, and to advocate for equitable and essential primary health services for vulnerable and displaced people throughout
Burma.

Key Health Service Statistics 2017

In 2017, MTC

continued to provide essential primary health care to a significant number of clients. This population would be unable to afford health care in Burma or Thailand. Mae Tao Clinic provided 103,872 consultations; of them, 9,898 were admitted for the further diagnoses and treatment. Among the total patients, 65% were women and 20% were children under 5 years old.

Total Consultations

103,872

total admissions

9,898

Patients (Reside in Thailand)

61,696

Patients (From Burma)

42,176

PUBLICATIONS

MTC Strategic Plan 2017-2021

The contextual environment in which we are operating has changed so dramatically over years we are now presenting a revised Strategic Plan for 2017-2021.

MTC 2017 Annual Report

You can find out more about our key activities and achievements across our various departments, including health services, health worker training, education, child protection and strengthening the ethnic health systems in Eastern Burma. The report also elaborates on the challenges we have faced and our strategies for a sustainable future.

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Like the majority of villagers, Aye Aye Aung and her husband have no health insurance that is why Mae Tao Clinic is the only affordable and accessible health facility for them. “I am always scared of being arrested by a police officer. Regardless of this kind of disadvantage, we don’t know when we will go Read more about Meet Our Patients (63): Newborn Baby[…]

There was no education facility in my hometown that’s why my parents sent us to Thailand to accss education. Even though I was a little child, I still remember how much I was scared and terrified of the sound of bullets and shells exploding all around us. I want to become a health care provider Read more about Meet Our Students (33): Say’s Story[…]

Partnership Agreement Signed by Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Thailand, Mae Tao Clinic and Suwannimit Foundation (SNF) on 19th April 2019. Partnership Agreement was signed by Mr Chen-Yuan Tung, Representative of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Thailand, Dr. Cynthia Maung and Pattinee Suanprasert, Executive Director of Suwannimit Foundation (SNF) on 19th April 2019. It has been Read more about Partnership Agreement Signed with TECO[…]

Yu Yu and her family are from Burma where they, like many others, are employed as daily workers, earning roughly 70,000 Kyat ($45 USD) per month. A few months after finding out about the pregnancy, Yu Yu’s husband left to pursue a job opportunity in Malaysia. He cut off all contact with his family because Read more about Meet Our Patients (62): Newborn Baby[…]

“When I was around 4 years old, my parents decided to move to Thailand. The migrant learning centre my brother and I attended provides education up to grade 5. As we grew up my parents needed to find another school where we can continue studying. When our application was accepted, I was happy and excited Read more about Meet Our Students (32): Aye’s Story[…]

My name is Win. I am 15-year old. My parents decided to send me to Thailand in early 2018 because they couldn’t fully support my school fees in Burma. They used to have land but a mining company’s aggressive activities led to the landslide and we lost our access to the half of our farm. Read more about Meet Our Students (31): Win’s Story[…]